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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems sort of obvious that OP has not taken metro recently.   There are a lot of people taking metro during the work week. It’s not shoulder to shoulder but there are plenty of commuters.

What kind of bumper to bumper traffic would there be with cheap parking?  That’s the least of it.  People need to actually learn how to drive properly.  I swear it seems like drivers around DC metro found their drivers license in a cereal box rather than actually take a drivers Ed class.

The signals have to be timed, DC Police and suburban police have to start ticketing aggressively all the drivers who block the intersection just so they can “make the light” yet block the box with their cars so that now the cross traffic that has the green light is blocked. This creates an immense web of traffic out to the beltway, yet nothing is done to diminish it. [/quote]
Why do people make posts like this when the data is publicly available. 4 out of 5 days last week less people took Metrorail than in 2021.

I notice that a lot of this cyclist, anti-car stuff is frequently either anecdote over data or misuse/misunderstanding of induced demand. [/quote]

nP - [b]Most of the data that I’ve seen shows that 2022 ridership is up significantly over 2021[/b].  Not close to prepandemic levels, but on the increase nonetheless. Where are you seeing otherwise?

Fwiw - I rode the metro this weekend - first time since the start of the pandemic - and I was surprised by both how many people were riding and by how smoothly it all went. It was perfectly fine.  If I had to commute in daily, I’d probably be taking the metro, especially if they get back to a regular schedule. With gas prices going up (and parking already up at the lot by my office), metro looks more and more appealing  [/quote]
Just proving my point. You could not be more wrong. You must be making up “data” in your own head. It’s like there is an imaginary world where the cyclist/urbanists live that is completely divorced from the real world.

The fact is that 2021 was a terrible year for WMATA and 2022 is worse.

Here is the most recent week available. 
https://www.wmata.com/service/covid19/covid-19-public-information.cfm

Change vs. 2021

Date	                 Rail	        Adjusted Bus	Rail 	       Bus
2/26/22 Sa	118,000	134,000	        136%	27%
2/25/22 Fr	        160,000	219,000	         72%	36%
2/24/22 Th	159,000	212,000	         82%	32%
2/23/22 We	170,000	233,000	         88%	39%
2/22/22 Tu	157,000	215,000	         84%	38%
2/21/22 Mo	104,000	152,000	         42%	17%
2/20/22 Su	88,000	113,000	         159%	50%

You are welcome to join us in the real world or you can continue to live in your own collective fantasy. [/quote]

Ummmm....that's actually showing that the rail ridership has [b]increased[/b]  from 2021 to 2022.   In February 2021, the average daily rail ridership was about 78,100 (averaged across both weekends and weekdays).  The bus ridership has increased as well, but not as dramatically.  Percent change is calculated as (V2-V1)/V1 *100     V2 = 2022 data, V1 = 2021 data.  Any positive percentage means an increase.

If you go to the rail ridership year over year data portal, you can see the ridership increase in graphic format.  https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/ridership-portal/Rail-Ridership-Change-Data-Portal.cfm

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You literally are the definition of a stupid person that pretends to be smart. Or you’re just have some psychological problem that requires you to lie. I’m not sure why, but it’s truly bizarre and please seek help.  [/quote]

Here is the 2020 data. Note the negative numbers showing a decline in ridership during the first year of the pandemic, in contrast to the 2022 numbers, which are positive because ridership is increasing. https://www.wmata.com/service/covid19/Ridership-Monitoring-Archive-2020.cfm [/quote]

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